yet for love’s sake I rather (A)appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, [a]the (B)aged, and now also (C)a prisoner of (D)Christ Jesus—

Plea for Onesimus, a Free Man

10 I (E)appeal to you for my (F)child [b](G)Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my [c]imprisonment, 11 who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:9 Or an ambassador
  2. Philemon 1:10 I.e. useful
  3. Philemon 1:10 Lit bonds